Example sentences of "[noun prp] when it [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alex Griffiths , Marks & Spencer 's fish executive , was surprised at the idea that the company might have even contemplated using Billingsgate when it began selling fresh fish nationally four years ago . |
| 2 | The Cavalier was being followed through Milton Keynes when it turned into the cul-de-sac and hit the wall at about 50 miles an hour . |
| 3 | They had reached the hilly avenues of Lisbon when it occurred to her that he could be worried about how she might behave when the time came for them to part . |
| 4 | Nicaragua become the 28th state recognising Taiwan when it re-established relations on Nov. 6 , having switched recognition to China in 1985 . |
| 5 | The latest sell-offs are in line the promises made by TI when it took the group over last year . |
| 6 | Bristol Crown Court has heard how Mrs Lorraine Hurkett , 26 , and her daughters Sharon , four , and Lisa , two , died after being struck by Flook 's Vauxhall Nova when it jumped red lights . |
| 7 | This will result in a narrowing of the range of costs which were given by Touche Ross when it costed four alternative options for single-tier councils . |
| 8 | Ramsay and Fraser reckoned that perhaps one-third might desert Dunbar when it came to the crunch . |
| 9 | The HND in Hotel Catering and Institutional Management course was the first of its kind in Scotland when it started life as the HND in Catering and Hotelkeeping . |
| 10 | I 'd worked with Frank Stranahan and Bob Charles when he was an amateur , so I felt ready for Peter Thomson when it happened . |
| 11 | The privately owned Hawker Hunter was on its way to Liverpool Airport from East Anglia when it crashed yesterday afternoon . |
| 12 | The appointment was formally endorsed unanimously by the RNC when it convened in Washington for its annual winter meeting on Jan. 25 . |
| 13 | Money enough for Lionel to idle away his days , to be all the Season in London , to be up in Yorkshire when it pleased him … |
| 14 | However , Livings was not in the USA to see Dustin and a cast which included Dana Elcar , Elizabeth Wilson ( who would play Dustin 's mother in The Graduate ) and Carl Gabler when it opened at Circle-In-The-Square at Bleeker Street on 16 October 1966 . |
| 15 | The Russians for their part promised to recognize the annexation of Bosnia and Herzegovina by Austria-Hungary when it seemed appropriate and Austria agreed not to oppose the union of Bulgaria and eastern Roumelia , if circumstances brought it about . |
| 16 | The chromate-free epoxy primer was originally developed by ICI and acquired by Courtaulds when it bought ICI 's £5.5 million European aerospace coatings business late last year . |
| 17 | John Stradling was receiver of Ogmore when it came into Gloucester 's hands and , unlike the steward and constable , was kept in office by the duke . |
| 18 | John Stradling was receiver of Ogmore when it came into Gloucester 's hands and , unlike the steward and constable , was kept in office by the duke . |
| 19 | The UK Sunday Express newspaper of March 29 reported that the Chinese government had compiled a " blacklist " of several hundred Hong Kong residents who had been targeted for arrest by China when it resumed sovereignty of the colony in 1997 . |
| 20 | ‘ The NorthEast always did worse than the rest of the UK when it suffered from socialism and its legacy . |
| 21 | One man died on board the Reine Mathilde when it caught fire on April 9 , sailing between Caen in France and Portsmouth , England , although not directly as a result of the fire ; arson was not suspected . |
| 22 | Sadly the ‘ Parracombe ’ failed in its gallant attempt to reach Malta when it struck a mine off Cap Bon . |
| 23 | The operation was running smoothly as the yacht rounded the North Foreland when it seemed certain that a landing would be made somewhere in the Thames Estuary . |
| 24 | To discover the origins of a station in such an unlikely place we must look to the problems faced by the BCR when it began working . |
| 25 | Haslam learned the hard way how to handle such a traumatic situation and how to some extent to play God when it became necessary to select the people who had to go . |
| 26 | The Catholic Church had made a bad mistake with Galileo when it tried to lay down the law on a question of science , declaring that the sun went round the earth . |
| 27 | His time at Newcastle gave him the unique opportunity to take the building society into Europe when it became the first UK society to offer a full range of services on the mainland of Europe on opening a branch in Gibraltar in 1990 . |
| 28 | We need a kind of Marshall plan which will bring to those poor suffering countries aid such as was brought to continental Europe when it lay prostrate at the end of the second world war . |
| 29 | The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’ |
| 30 | The inquest had taken place three years ago in Oxford , which explained why Loretta did n't remember the case : she had been in the middle of a six-week working holiday in Italy when it happened , writing a lengthy paper on women 's fiction from 1900 to 1930 . |